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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion--a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
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"Mac Mackenzie has enough problems on his plate. He's got bounty hunters on his tail, no one on his side, and no place to hide. Just when he thinks it can't get any worse, he hears the rumbling of a cattle stampede--heading straight for his camp. Mac's got two choices: Get trampled like a weed or saddle up and help get the herd under control. At first, the traildrivers ain't too pleased to have a stranger help them out. But once they realize Mac's...
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A groundbreaking depiction of the cowboys, drovers, thieves and cattle-town malcontents of the American West. Straightforwardly told, rich in detail, and laced with appealing campfire humor, Andy Adam's realistic 'The Log of a Cowboy' is a classic portrayal of the western cattle country. Drawing on his own experiences as a cowboy working in cattle and horse drives, Adams presents a vivid portrait of the challenges of trail life on a cattle drive from...
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"Owen Burnett's needs are small. All he's ever wanted is his wife's affection, his children's health, and a little plot of land to farm. Still, he's no fool. So when his neighbor Gareth Kurst makes him a business proposition, one that could leave him richer than he's ever dreamed, he can't refuse giving the risky scheme a try. Rounding up cattle up in the Texas Hill Country is nothing to take on lightly. Between the Comanches roaming the countryside...
8) Cows
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"A basic introduction to cows and how they live on the farm. Simple text and full color photographs. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
9) Texas free
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A woman seeking refuge on her inherited ranch and a Special Ranger posing as a cowhand navigate doubts about each other while investigating an outbreak of cattle rustling.
10) Cows
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"A cow narrates this photo-illustrated book describing the body parts and behavior of cows on a farm. Includes photo glossary"--
12) Cows
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Introduces cattle, and describes their appearance, the sounds they make, what they eat, and how they pass their time on a farm.
14) Baby cows
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces baby cows to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
15) Pray for death
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"There's serious trouble brewing in the Choctaw nation, and it goes by the name of Tiny McCoy. This small-time cattle rustler is expanding his brand by brewing batches of whiskey in the Chocktaw territory of Muddy Boggy Creek. Tiny and his partner have also turned the illegal brewery into a robber's roost for outlaws, cutthroats, and killers of every bent. Local lawman Jim Little Eagle is under attack and out-gunned. But when he sends a wire to Fort...
16) Cows
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Simple text and photographs introduce cows and their body parts.
17) Cows moo!
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This playful title includes double page, beautiful photos of cows in their natural habitat. Early to transitional readers will enjoy the fun and fact-packed simple rhyming stories that flow in large type throughout the book. Supplementary text boxes provide additional information about cows at a higher reading level, perfect for guided readings with parents, teachers or more fluent readers. This entertaining and educational title also includes an...
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The cow. The most industrious animal in the world. A beast central to human existence since time began, it has played a vital role in our history not only as a source of food, but also as a means of labor, an economic resource, an inspiration for art, and even as a religious icon. Prehistoric people painted it on cave walls; explorers, merchants, and landowners traded it as currency; many cultures worshipped it as a god. So how did it come to occupy...
19) Six bits a day
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Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
20) The Virginian
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The Virginian is a 1902 debut novel set in the Wild West by the American novelist Owen Wister. Describing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, it helped establish the western novel as a literary genre. The unnamed protagonist in The Virginian, who courts a local schoolteacher and defers personal revenge while meting out justice to a cattle thief, set the tone for the rough but civilized cowboy, a prototype for scores of ensuing books,...
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